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Just want to say, I’ve watched this video a million times and I really do love it! And playing Japan is one of my favorite things to do in this game. However, in my play-through I’m doing against myself, I think I’ve found a way to counter this strategy… 1. A must, but the US just has to dump all of its IPCs into the pacific, which does leave Germany to its own devices, however that’s somewhat of a different topic. But by turn 3/4 I have far surpassed the Japanese navy. 2. Keep at least 12 Russians on the Japanese border and even have them invade Korea or Manchuria… with a stack of 18 and 2 AA maybe even worse. But with this distraction, Japan wasn’t able to focus all on French indochina production and has to divert infantry to retake lost territory. 3. As the Chinese and British player, stack up in Yunnan with infantry and fighters and it becomes pretty much untakeable. I’ve found these to significantly slow the Japanese push, however it does leave Germany wide open. Any thoughts?

I very recently started playing TripleA online, and I was wondering how you would take away the national objectives for anniversary in the online game.

What is the source for the small decals? Thanks for the great video!

Thanks! Great series! A few, perhaps silly, questions: 1) what kind of glue did you use for attaching the magnets to the planes? 2) Can you recommend a source or specification for the plane wing decals? Thanks!

Out of curiosity, did anyone in your tournament games use Global 1940's research and technology rules? Additionally, do you have an opinion about those rules? Do you think they're useful at all? Thank you!

Hello,there. Excellent series. I have a question. What do you consider to be a long term game: 7 to 8 rounds? I ask that because if we are playing a timed game, such as 6 hour game, do you believe it is possible to follow this strategy or is it slow for a short game of 6 to 7 round long? Thanks for your time. I appreciate it.

uh did u use ottoman troops in france instead of actual French units????

Well they already sold one copy to this A&A fan. Can't wait until it arrives in a few weeks! Also got guadalcanal (finally after years of almost paying the extreme price for the out of print version) and the 1940 global neoprene big boy map as well! I had no idea Renegade took over this series, but i'm really happy that they did. If they make the games, i'll buy them!

Is there any way to buy a new one in europe?

Out of curiosity, what dice calculator did you use? Thank you!

Thanks for the video. I've actually been putting together a summary of the rules for 1914, and was wondering if I could include your balancing rules with credit? I've posted the doc in the game's BGG forum.

One thing I've been thinking about is how you dealt with the 6 infantry vs 2 tanks statistics. I agree that you did show that the infantry were more likely to undershoot than overshoot. However, as some other commenters mentioned, you didn't give more "weight" to the columns where the infantry hit at 3, 4, 5, and 6 compared to the column of them hitting at 6. What they basically mean is that since 3 (and higher) hits are more damaging to an enemy than 2 hits, the smaller percentage should be considered differently (more) than the percentage for 2 hits. Here's a potential thought experiment that might prove their point: The dice for 2 tanks are rolled 100,000 times, and the dice for 6 infantry are rolled 100,000 times. Obviously under Low Luck both these 2 groups of units will hit 100,000 times. According to your graphs, on average 25% of the rolls for the tanks will not score any hits, 50% will score 1 hit (50,000 rolls of the dice), and 25% will score 2 hits (25,000 rolls for the dice). This overall means that when we roll for 2 tanks 100,000 times, on average we should expect 100,000 hits. Using your graphs for 6 infantry, 33,500 rolls will miss, 40,200 will hit once, 20,100 will hit twice, 5360 will hit 3 times, 800 rolls will hit 4 times, 60 will hit 5 times, and 2 will hit 6 times. So 40,200+(20,100x2)+(5360x3)+(800x4)+(60x5)+(2x12) equals 99,992 hits. This means that on average we should expect 99,992 hits when we roll for 6 infantry 100,000 times. Not exactly equal to tanks, but still close enough that it may not matter, meaning that Low Luck could be considered to be fair. I think the rest of the argument and video still holds up though. What is your response to this?

Wait, is Andrew Seligman AndrewAAGamer? That's so cool! I didn't know until now he was involved in the playtesting of this game. He's amazing, he beat me at Global 1940 as the Axis even though I, as the Allies, had a 72 IPC bid. Yeah, I noticed right off the bat that this is definitely very complicated. Thanks for pointing out that North Africa incorporates elements of the 3 previous theater level games. I found the part about unit types and stacking limits very informative. I didn't think of that and I'll definitely have to keep that in mind. Can't wait to buy North Africa (though I'll probably still be busy playing G.I Joe and Guandacanal)! Thank you for sharing the cheat sheet! That will be immensely helpful. What handle does Eric Zielinski use on the forum? Thank you!

Hello captain! I wanted to ask if you ever plan on doing an a&a anniversary '42 series, your videos on the '41 setup have really helped and l'm really curious about what you would do in the other setup, mainly what to do with russia on the first turn (what counterattacks to make and with what) and whether or not you can build an Ic in India with the Uk

Thanks for the cheat sheet!! I wish it was included in the game but I’m glad to have it. Thanks for calling out the play testers too! They are all under appreciated. I bought 2 of these. I love Renegade games.

So, im seeing the tactical aspect of the game referencing operational scope rather than gameplay. Dont see tons of room for real flanking maneuvors and so forth.

I see the box, it is called North Africa? I like the idea of adding supply and stackng limits to Axis & Allies. Wll try this one for sure!

woah nice!!

Thanks for the cheat sheet - it is tiresome to go back to the rule book so often. I have played a few games of it, and as the UK, I focus on a strong navy and air force, and that seems to work to crush the Axis reinforcements, and when the US comes in, they bring the stacks of tanks to finish the job.

Thanks for the cheat sheet! It should come in handy.

Good stuff: interesting to think the Stack Limits encourage exploring optimal builds. I can hardly wait for September's U.K. release.

are you going to make some strategic videos when this comes out?

Great video! Thanks for this

Excited to hear your thoughts on this game. Eager to see more new Renegade Games Axis & Allies products.

Nice video and well noted comments.

Glad to have found this!

I’m hoping for more content on the game by you. Eagerly awaiting my pre-order to arrive. 😊

Given your previous comments on Low Luck, how do you feel about using Low Luck as a way to help balance this game? Thank you!

What do you think about moving the German Togoland Infantry to Gold Coast because in my experience the France player if the German infantry is in Gold Coast rarely attacks and even if the do they're at a disadvantage and if they do attack to a draw the German infantry can still run away to Togoland and if they attack again using Low Luck logic that French infantry should be dead with a 1/3 chance the German infantry remains to walk in Nigeria the following turn and all of that is assuming the French attack at all

After rewatching the video, I'm curious: When did you start finding out about this problem? Did you ever think low luck was viable, or did you figure out the issue almost immediately after you heard about it? If the former, what caused you to start doing these calculations? Thank you!

The game is clearly in favour of the axis powers. I believe a bid of 26-34 is very reasonable for the allies. In your rules for bidding were you allowed to place a minor factory as a part of your placement? For example if I wanted to use 12 of my allies bid ipcs on a minor factory in Egypt would that be allowed by typical tournament rules?

Note on the sea zone 17 and 18 change: This change makes the Austro-Hungarian-Ottoman naval moves into sea zone 17 sightly less effective, as the Italian transport in sea zone 17 can move into sea zone 18 and take an infantry from Tuscany or Venice and activate Albania (assuming it risks the mine, of course).

Great video

make a revised series next!

Thank you.

the full essays are no longer available online.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I just got my pbp A&A 1914 game off the ground. Sadly handing out countries to players didn't work out as I hoped and instead of playing A+H alongside my son as Germany, I am instead playing France AGAINST my son as Germany. XD

If you just move in sea 17 , won't the naval mines activate?

Questions....1 fortune of war card results in allies allowed only 2 attacks , does Germany get to defend in every other combat situation for that turn ? 2 tactic card allows any number of ftrs to move to a German point of entry, does that mean only 1 point of entry? Or can they split up to cover multiple points of entry?

To clarify on the Dardanelles balance rule: A sea combat unit (say, a battleship) in sea zone 17 or 19 can engage an opponent's ships in sea zone 20, even if the opponent controls Constantinople? So on Turn 1 the British cruiser can attack the Ottoman starting ships? Thank you!

Sir, I just have to say that your videos are so well done. Thank you for all of your hard work and time put into your knowledge and the video itself. I love this game, but rarely find the time to play due to the constraints of real life. I just recently got back into it and had the Anniversary Edition sitting on my shelf for years, untouched. These strategy videos were so fun and exciting to watch, and I found myself walking along with my board so that I could learn everything about this edition of the game. Thank you again, I'm forever subscribed to your channel.

Is there a version for this on triple a?

Note on the Ruhr: It is not necessarily dangerous for the Allies to invade the Ruhr. Several times I found that, due to Germany's laser focus on the Eastern Front, the Allies sometimes moved into the Ruhr, overextending themselves and allowing a painful counterattack by German forces. Keep an eye out for when a full scale (that means no 1-2 infantry walk-ins, I mean most of the stack) Allied invasion of the Ruhr would devastate Germany's economy and when it would be a brilliant opportunity for the German war effort. This applies to both the Central Powers and the Allies.

My thoughts on tanks are a bit more negative. I thought at first it was the best unit in the game, but I wanted to find out for sure so I did a bunch of tests with the battle calculator. I set a number of 105 IPCs and bought several different types of armies from it, ranging from 35 infantry, 14 inf + 14 art + fighter, 17 tanks and one infantry, a balanced army, and so on, up to a number of six armies in total. I then put all six armies against each other and used the TripleA battle calculator to calculate the TUV swing, both for an attack as well as a potential counter-attack by the defending army, to find out which combination of units was the best. It turns out, that the army of 17 tanks is the only one that has a positive TUV swing when attacking 35 infantry. That sounds good, but when the remainder of the infantry counter-attacks the tank force, the TUV swing starts swinging heavily in favor of the infantry. This is because defending tanks are so extremely bad, and are quite expensive compared to the other units. In the end, the tank army performed worse than most other armies. The army that performed the best was the 14 inf + 14 art + fighter army. That one was almost on par with attacking the 35 infantry and only pulled off victories against the other armies. So what I think is the best army composition, is an army containing a more or less equal amount of infantry and artillery (preferably a bit more infantry than artillery to soak up hits so that the artillery won't get killed in battle), and as many air units possible because the air supremacy is very important. I think tanks are only better if you attack someone with an inferior army. That way, the tanks will be able to absorb all the hits when attacking and the enemy won't be able to inflict as much damage when defending. However, if you are attacking an army that is almost as strong as yours, the tanks will fight like paper during the counter-attack, and in the long run you will become at a disadvantage just because the numbers aren't in your favor.

Hi captain, me and my Brother have a questione about the rules : when you make an amphibious assault and you (attacker) have air units, if there is a sea battle before, are they (air units ) automatically involved in the sea battle or the attacker can choose to use them in the land assault instead? In the rulebook Is not very clear since It seems tò contraddict itself (Page 17) . We thought that this can be really game changing expecially for the italian situation, on regards of the american fleet and its air force. Thank you in advance and many hugs from Italy

As usual in axis and allies(and real life for that matter) Germany has to put the team on their back.

One thing I wish was different about this game, is Paratroopers. I wish you could choose where to drop your paras, as opposed to them landing in the same spot every game. Probably picking from a select group of territories, just the first two territories inland from the sea. I think this would just add a little spice and some cool strategies.

Hey I know this comment is late but, I was under the impression that once you moved ships into a sea zone containing enemy surface warships you had to stop and fight? Is this not true in 1914? You can just stop in the Seazone and sit there?